ReviewTrends in cognitive sciences2021
An oscillatory pipelining mechanism supporting previewing during visual exploration and reading.
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- Lexical word processing is unaffected by rapid invisible frequency tagging in reading: Evidence from eye movements.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- An In-Depth Investigation of Eye Movement Profile of Dyslexic Readers Using a Standardized Text-Reading Aloud Task in French.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Left Perisylvian Rhythms Encode Prosody and Syntax during Delayed Sentence Repetition.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Saccade execution increases the preview effect with faces: An EEG and eye-tracking coregistration study.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- An early effect of the parafoveal preview on post-saccadic processing of English words.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Naturalistic reading of multi-page texts elicits spatially extended modulation of oscillatory activity in the right hemisphere.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Fast Feature- and Category-Related Parafoveal Previewing Support Free Visual Exploration.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
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- Presaccadic preview shapes postsaccadic processing more where perception is poor.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Oscillations in an artificial neural network convert competing inputs into a temporal code.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
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- Development of the Alpha Rhythm Is Linked to Visual White Matter Pathways and Visual Detection Performance.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Distractor inhibition by alpha oscillations is controlled by an indirect mechanism governed by goal-relevant information.Communications psychology · 2024Review
- Eye movements disrupt EEG alpha-band coding of behaviorally relevant and irrelevant spatial locations held in working memory.Journal of neurophysiology · 2023Article
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- Retrosplenial and Hippocampal Synchrony during Retrieval of Old Memories in Macaques.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- Fluid Intelligence Emerges from Representing Relations.Journal of Intelligence · 2022Article
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Abstract
Humans have a remarkable ability to efficiently explore visual scenes and text using eye movements. Humans typically make eye movements (saccades) every ~250 ms. Since saccade initiation and execution take 100 ms, this leaves only ~150 ms to recognize the fixated object (or word) while simultaneously previewing candidates for the next saccade goal. We propose a pipelining mechanism where serial processing occurs within a specific brain region, whereas parallel processing occurs across different brain regions. The mechanism is timed by alpha oscillations that coordinate the saccades, visual recognition, and previewing in the cortical hierarchy. Consequently, the neuronal mechanism supporting natural vision and saccades must be studied in unison to uncover the brain mechanisms supporting visual exploration and reading.
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